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                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #2901
                   TILLMAN AND NORWOOD LEDGERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      James A. Tillman and John Norwood, physicians of
           Crawford, Russell County, Ala., who, in 1860-1862,
           appear to have shared a practice, called Tillman and
           Norwood.
               Two ledgers relating to the medical practices of
           Norwood and Tillman.  Volume 1 (126 p.) contains
           entries about Norwood's practice, 1859-1866, with only
           a few entries for 1860-1862, the period during which
           he appears to have shared a practice with Tillman. 
           Volume 2 (398 p.) contains Tillman and Norwood
           entries, 1860-1862, and Norwood entries, 1866-1868,
           when the partnership seems to have been dissolved. 
           Entries in both ledgers show dates of treatment and
           payment received, and, before and after the Civil War,
           note which patients were black.  Many entries,
           especially in Volume 1, consist only of "advice and
           medicine for self."  Other entries, however, list the
           patient's complaint and the treatment rendered. 
           Tillman and Norwood typically dressed wounds,
           delivered babies, lanced fingers, and prescribed
           morphine, quinine, and laudanum.  Tooth extraction was
           also an important part of their practice; an entry on
           26 August 1860 shows that Tillman was paid in whisky
           for "nocking (sic) out two teeth with a hammer and
           nail."

Online Catalog Terms:
   Afro-Americans--Alabama--Medical care--History--19th century.
   Crawford (Ala.)--History--19th century.
   Dentistry--Practice--Alabama--History--19th century.
   Medicine--Formulae, receipts, prescriptions--History--19th
       century.
   Medicine--Practice--Accounting--History--19th century.
   Medicine--Practice--Alabama--History--19th century.
   Norwood, John Norwood, fl. 1859-1868.
   Physicians--Alabama--History--19th century.
   Russell County (Ala.)--History--19th century.
   Slaves--Alabama--Medical care.
   Tillman, James A., fl. 1860-1862.

Size:      2 items (0.5 linear feet).

Provenance:    Received from Edith Kyle Harrison of Columbus,
               Georgia, in September 1952.

Access:        No restrictions.

Processing Note:   This collection was rehoused under the
                   sponsorship of a grant from the National
                   Endowment for the Humanities, Office of
                   Preservation, Washington, D.C., 1990-1992.

Related Collection:    SLAVE BIRTH RECORD (#672), in which some
                       of the names of entries, including those
                       of slaves are duplicated.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or 
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

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